By Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive Martin Luther King Jr, born Michael King Jr on the 15th January 1929 was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most evident spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott […]
Category: Bookishness
Author Focus | Lewis Carroll
by Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive He gave us the children’s classics “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and “Through the Looking Glass” (1871) which have created various adaptations from films to comic books. He suffered from a stammer throughout his childhood and found that when he spoke to children, he was vocally fluent.In 1855 his exceptional […]
Alice in Wonderland | Book Focus
by Rebecca Reed, CRM Executive. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll. Three years before this date Charles rowed a boat up the Isis on the 4th July 1862 with Reverend Robinson Duckworth, Lorina Charlotte Liddell, Alice Pleasance Liddell and Edith Mary […]